is one of Artsy’s 5 artists of note for April.
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Natasza Niedziolka
Interweaving modernism, folk tradition, and arts and crafts, Natasza Niedziolka knits and embroiders large works filled with bold colors and shapes. While her techniques are traditional and domestic, Niedziolka’s work is distinctly contemporary, merging modernist abstraction with the textile tradition.
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Hildur Ásgeirsdóttir Jónsson
has an amazing exhibit up at the Bechtler. If you are in the Charlotte area any time soon I highly recommend it. The artist and her longtime assistant, Jillian Glass Braganza, dress a loom with silk yarn, a task that can take weeks for larger works. These threads, called the warp, will remain stationary on the loom during the weaving, but first, they are placed over the schematic drawing and soaked with water. Using fiber-reactive silk dyes, Jónsson either pours liquid in her desired colors onto the threads or dabs it on with a brush. While the warp threads are drying, Jónsson soaks and paints the weft threads, which will be drawn through and inserted over and under the warp, to run perpendicular along the length of the textile. When all the threads are dry, weft meets warp bit by bit on the loom, slowly bringing Jónsson’s painting into being.
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Ellen Lesperance
whose patterned paintings depict full-body garments of female activists engaged in direct action protests, like Xylor, is in The Apex is Nothing.
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Sheila Crider
BmoreArt says Sheila’s newest, Relief at New Door Creative, is one of nine April exhibitions to check out.
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Erin Shirreff
Erin Shirreff’s diverse body of work, which includes photography, video, and sculpture, is united by her interest in the ways we experience three-dimensional forms in an age in which our perception is almost invariably mediated by still and moving images.
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Liz Collins
Elizabeth Frazzare at Artsy says abstract weaving is having a moment (and explains why she thinks so). She gives a nod to Liz (and covers Melissa and the women of Bauhaus obviously).
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Caroline Burton
Michael at Two Coats has words about Caroline’s “compelling in-betweenness” – a commentary on her very unique process that involves found materials.
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Suzanne Jackson
Hyperallergic says (among other, relevant things) Jackson’s “anti-canvases” in the Whitney Biennial is their “most thrilling discovery.”
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Angela Heisch
In Angela Heisch’s abstract paintings, deep blues and warm taupes swirl together in bold spirals of light and dark, hard edges and soft gradations. Her enigmatic forms resemble slices of plants, flowers, living beings, and even the cosmos; they vibrate with energy that’s both familiar and otherworldly.
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Yvonne Thomas
One of only a handful of women to be included within the first generation of Abstract Expressionists, Yvonne Thomas combined the intuitive mark-making of the movement with a keen eye for the expressive possibilities of color.
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Hanane Jamili
is a native of Raleigh, NC, is a painter and instructor with a distinctive style that blends abstract art with Arabic calligraphy, and- like Hiba– is one of the creatives included in Contemporary Muslim Art of North Carolina.
About the piece below Hanane says “this painting captures the unwavering resistance of the beautiful people of Palestine. Their courage inspires the ordinary person to overcome hardships through ‘tawakul’ which is the God consciousness, and trust in God’s plan.”
Through her work, Hanane has raised over $15,000 to various charities and local organizations. Her complete collections can be found at artsybyhanane.com.
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Kelly Ording
Based in Oakland, CA, Kelly Ording has exhibited her work both in the U.S. and internationally since graduating from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000. Her paintings carry a moving motion, from the lines she draws that have no ending or beginning to the water marks of coffee she uses to dye the paper or canvas.
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Diane Simpson
Laurie at Two Coats of Paint has words about Diane’s elegant quirkiness on the occasion of her show with James Cohan.
Painting After Art is Dead 